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British celebrity hairstylist and beauty brand entrepreneur John Frieda has died aged 75. Frieda became a firm favourite with celebrities throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and is known to have cut hair for clients including British model Twiggy, US First Lady Jackie Kennedy and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. He…
Apple told developers Monday, Nov. 2, that apps with dating features or romantic AI companions will get a minimum 18+ rating. Every app must answer the new questions by Jan. 12. Apple is drawing a firmer line around dating apps, and around chatbots that flirt back. Starting Monday, Nov. 16…
As artificial intelligence and accelerated computing continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible, the latest NVIDIA CUDA release arrives to unlock unprecedented performance and scale. NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 delivers general…
CrowdStrike launched an AI kill switch feature to stop and block internal agents that misbehave. The cybersecurity giant also announced a Claude Cowork integration and two AI acquisitions. being able to control and shut down…
Today’s AI workloads are rapidly changing: new models are released more often, model architectures are increasingly diverse, and traffic distributions change frequently. The challenge we face at Together AI is continual optimization for these changing workloads. Compiling a given deployment into an optimized forward pass is a challenge that is…
GPT-6 Astra · Internal deployment and evals Samples: Sep 18–Oct 7, 2026 (evals) Discovered: Aug 20, 2026 (initial reports) OpenAI researchers first noticed Astra adding unnecessary prerequisites, abandoning working solutions, and…
Marcus Williams twitter thread (non-twitter link) intro: Astra covertly underperforms on safety research tasks. We noticed that Astra often makes surprisingly little progress on certain types of safety research and likes to…
Following a scary event in September, when a massive sinkhole swallowed the driveway of his Malibu mansion, actor Nicolas Cage says he's currently homeless. The "Con Air" actor revealed his current living situation when he was asked about his Halloween plans during an appearance at Los Angeles Comic Con on…